Mississippi River

St. Cloud photographer Steven Sohlstrom captured this beautiful overhead view of the frozen Mississippi River in downtown St. Cloud on Saturday. With the forecast calling for a warm week ahead, the ice on the river won't be there much longer.

Officials confirm that commercial fishermen caught a silver carp and a bighead carp in the Mississippi River near Winona.

National Geographic spent a year trekking down the Mississippi River, from the headwaters, through the St. Cloud area, and all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico.

ST. CLOUD -- The Minnesota Department of Transportation holds a meeting tomorrow night (Thursday) to get your thoughts the Mississippi River Trail bikeway. It's one of two meetings in the state to discuss how the river trail bikeway should be managed in the future...

Minnesota officials say tests have detected signs of Asian carp north of the Coon Rapids dam on the Mississippi River, the last major physical barrier to their spread northward.

The search for invasive Asian carp in the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers enters a new phase in the coming week. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and other agencies will conduct a new round of environmental DNA testing, and this time it will include the Minnesota River.

There is a day full of activities planned for tomorrow (Saturday) on the Mississippi River. The event called "Take A Day Off" on the Mississippi River run from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. at the Stearns County Park, seven miles north of Sartell on County Road 1.

Two more water samples from near the Great Lakes have been found to contain genetic material from invasive Asian carp. Federal say the samples were taken from Chicago's Lake Calumet, where the Army Corps of Engineers reported seven other positive DNA hits earlier this week.

A regional urban river plan will be unveiled tonight (Wednesday) for the St. Cloud metro area. Spokeswoman Marian Bender says the plan includes a 19-mile stretch of the Mississippi River through Sartell, Sauk Rapids and St. Cloud.

A plan two years in the making to protect the 72-mile portion of the Mississippi River that runs through the Twin Cities could be scrapped if a legislative proposal is green-lighted.